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The Red Tower and the harbour, Alanya
AlanyaThe Red Tower and the harbour
The Golden Bridge held up by stone hands, Da Nang
Da NangThe Golden Bridge held up by stone hands

Photos: Alanya by Atlantic Ambience, Pexels License; Da Nang by Nghia Tran, Pexels License.

Alanya or Da Nang?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Alanya for

  • nightlife
  • getting around
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Alanya’s own page.

Choose Da Nang for

  • prices
  • food and drink
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Da Nang’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Alanya 84, Da Nang 80: Alanya leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. Alanya 43, Da Nang 67: Da Nang leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Alanya 44, Da Nang 38: Alanya leads by 6 points.
Nightlife. Alanya 58, Da Nang 44: Alanya leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. Alanya 68, Da Nang 72: Da Nang leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Alanya 62, Da Nang 80: Da Nang leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Alanya 70, Da Nang 62: Alanya leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Alanya 50, Da Nang 38: Alanya leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Alanya 34, Da Nang 40: Da Nang leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Alanya 65, Da Nang 90: Da Nang leads by 25 points.
Live music & performing arts. Alanya 15, Da Nang 20: Da Nang leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Alanya 56, Da Nang 64: Da Nang leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Alanya and Da Nang.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Alanya
54match

Wins on nightlife and getting around with your weighting.

Da Nang
Best match
58match

Wins on prices and food and drink with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Alanya in July

32 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
3 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
28 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Da Nang in July

35 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
83 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Alanya has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Alanya: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km. Da Nang: 1991-2020 normals, Da Nang (4.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAlanyaDa Nang
Official languageTurkishVietnamese
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Dong (VND)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzACFG220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+7
Emergency number112Police 113, ambulance 115, fire 114
Elevation10 m19 m
Main airportGazipaşa-Alanya Airport (GZP)38 km from centre22 non-stop destinationsDa Nang International Airport (DAD)3 km from centre47 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days-

By the numbers

MeasureAlanyaDa Nang
City population364,1802,819,900
People per km²228238
Museums within 10 km22
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 months12 months

Where else could you go?

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Sources

Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.